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Freaking awesome.

Would be great for driving over speed bumps and driving on the kerb :P

Would also be great for high power fwds to keep the front down when dragging.

Edited by Sinturion
Isn't this in the new HSV GTS? As well as a bunch of other GM cars?

Or is this a different system?

Different system.

HSV's MRC uses a magnetic fluid inside the damper, which by passing a current through can adjust its viscosity and hence rate.

The Bose system works the same way a speaker does, but instead of using magnets to move a coil to generate vibrations in the air it works in reverse. It uses a magnets to resist the movement of a coil.

They sound similar, but its not really. In the MRC system the magnet affects the damper fluid, which resists the spring. In the Bose system, the magnets resist the spring directly.

The Bose setup has been around for a while. Motor Magazine did a review of it around a year ago (at least).

Apparently the biggest problem against its adoption is not the unknown reliability, nor the expense. Its the fact that Bose will not license the technology to anyone. They want the OEMs to contract the design for each car to them. They give Bose the specs of the vehicle, and Bose then designs the suspension and ships the finished product back to the OEM.

Apparently OEMs don't want to relinquish the design and engineer for such a core part of the car. They'd prefer to be told how to make the system, pay for the IP, and then implement the setup themselves. With what Bose is asking, they'll only get a little feedback in how they want the car to ride / handle, but Bose does all the setup and testing and just ships a finished product back.

i'd hardly think it'd be possible to get a good final result based purely on using the weight, wheel-base and track specs of the vehicle and feeding the info into a computer simulator. You can only go so far with computer theorizing before you'd actually need to do some real world testing with the car in production spec.

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